Australian Curriculum Version 9.0
General capabilities
Content descriptions
English
| Language | |
| Text structure and organisation | explain how texts are structured depending on their purpose and how language features vary, recognising that some texts are hybrids that combine different genres or elements of different genres (AC9E8LA03) understand how cohesion in texts is improved by strengthening the internal structure of paragraphs with examples, quotations and substantiation of claims (AC9E8LA04) |
| Language for expressing and developing ideas | investigate how visual texts use intertextual references to enhance and layer meaning (AC9E8LA07) identify and use vocabulary typical of academic texts (AC9E8LA08) understand and use punctuation conventions including semicolons and dashes to extend ideas and support meaning (AC9E8LA09) |
| Literature | |
| Literature and contexts | explain the ways that ideas and points of view may represent the values of individuals and groups in literary texts, drawn from historical, social and cultural contexts, by First Nations Australian, and wide-ranging Australian and world authors (AC9E8LE01) |
| Engaging with and responding to literature | explain how language and/or images in texts position readers to respond and form viewpoints (AC9E8LE03) |
| Examining literature | analyse how language features such as sentence patterns create tone, and literary devices such as imagery create meaning and effect (AC9E8LE05) |
| Creating literature | create and edit literary texts that experiment with language features and literary devices for particular purposes and effects (AC9E8LE06) |
| Literacy | |
| Texts in context | identify how texts reflect contexts (AC9E8LY01) |
| Analysing, interpreting and evaluating | analyse and evaluate the ways that language features vary according to the purpose and audience of the text, and the ways that sources and quotations are used in a text (AC9E8LY03) analyse how authors organise ideas to develop and shape meaning (AC9E8LY04) use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to interpret and evaluate ideas in texts (AC9E8LY05) |
| Creating texts | plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts, organising and expanding ideas, and selecting text structures, language features, literary devices and visual features for purposes and audiences in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical (AC9E8LY06) plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations for audiences and purposes, selecting language features, literary devices, visual features and features of voice to suit formal or informal situations, and organising and developing ideas in texts in ways that may be imaginative, reflective, informative, persuasive and/or analytical (AC9E8LY07) |
Geography
| Changing nations | reasons for, and effects of, internal migration and international migration in Australia, China or other countries (AC9HG8K08) |
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